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- Robert Colquhoun (Kilmarnock, 20 de desembre de 1914 - Londres, 20 de setembre de 1962) va ser un pintor, gravador i escenògraf escocès. (ca)
- Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong homosexual relationship and professional collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". He joined MacBryde on a travelling scholarship to France and Italy from 1937 to 1939, before serving as an ambulance driver in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Second World War. After being injured, he returned to London in 1941 where he shared studio space with MacBryde. The pair shared a house with John Minton and, from 1943, Jankel Adler. Colquhoun's early works of agricultural labourers and workmen were strongly influenced by the colours and light of rural Ayrshire. His work developed into a more austere, Expressionist style, heavily influenced by Picasso, and concentrated on the theme of the isolated, agonised figure. From the mid-1940s to the early 1950s he was considered one of the leading artists of his generation. Along with that of MacBryde, the work of Colquhoun was regularly shown at the Lefevre Gallery in London. At the height of their acclaim they courted a large circle of friends - including Michael Ayrton, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and John Minton as well as the writers Fred Urquhart, George Barker, Elizabeth Smart and Dylan Thomas - and were renowned for their parties at their studio (77 Bedford Gardens). Colquhoun was also a prolific printmaker, producing a large number of lithographs and monotypes throughout his career. During and after the Second World War he worked with MacBryde on several set designs. These included sets for Gielgud's Macbeth, King Lear at Stratford and Massine's Scottish ballet Donald of the Burthens, produced by the Sadler's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden in 1951. During the 1950s their artistic reputation went into serious decline, and their heavy drinking made any serious effort to paint impossible. According to their friend Anthony Cronin they were often close to destitution. In May 1958, his work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, England. Robert Colquhoun died, an alcoholic, in relative obscurity in London in 1962. MacBryde moved to Dublin, where he was killed in a traffic accident in 1966. Their friend Anthony Cronin describes them with respect and affection in his memoir Dead as Doornails. (en)
- Robert Colquhoun (Kilmarnock, 1914 – Londra, 1962) è stato un pittore e scenografo scozzese. Colquhoun nacque a Kilmarnock, Scozia, e fu educato alla . Vinse una borsa di studio per la Scuola d'Arte di Glasgow, dove incontrò Robert MacBryde con cui si stabilì una amicizia e collaborazione per tutta la vita, fino ad essere chiamati "i due Robert". Si unì a MacBryde in un viaggio di studio per la Francia e l'Italia dal 1937 al 1939, prima di fare il guidatore d'ambulanza per la Royal Army Medical Corps durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Dopo esser stato ferito, ritornò a Londra nel 1941 dove divise lo studio con MacBryde. Il duo condivise una casa con l'artista John Minton e, dal 1943, con Jankel Adler. I primi lavori di Colquhoun hanno come soggetto contadini e lavoratori e sono caratterizzati dai colori e dalle luci del rurale Ayrshire.Il suo lavoro si sviluppò in un più austero stile espressionista, molto influenzato da Pablo Picasso e concentrato sul tema della figura isolata e agonizzante. Dalla metà degli anni '40 agli inizi dei '50 fu considerato uno dei più prominenti artisti della sua generazione. Fu anche un prolifico stampatore, avendo prodotto un gran numero di litografie e monotipi durante la sua carriera. Durante e dopo la seconda guerra mondiale lavorò con MacBryde a varie scenografie. Queste includono scene per il Macbeth ed il Re Lear di John Gielgud al Royal Shakespeare Theatre e il balletto di Léonide Massine Donald of the Burthens, prodotto dal Sadler's Wells Theatre alla Royal Opera House nel 1951. Robert Colquhoun morì, alcolizzato, in relativa ombra nel 1962. Nel 1959 venne realizzato il documentario Monitor: Scottish Painters di Ken Russell (it)
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- Robert Colquhoun (Kilmarnock, 20 de desembre de 1914 - Londres, 20 de setembre de 1962) va ser un pintor, gravador i escenògraf escocès. (ca)
- Robert Colquhoun (20 December 1914 – 20 September 1962) was a Scottish painter, printmaker and theatre set designer. Colquhoun was born in Kilmarnock and was educated at Kilmarnock Academy. He won a scholarship to study at the Glasgow School of Art, where he met Robert MacBryde with whom he established a lifelong homosexual relationship and professional collaboration, the pair becoming known as "the two Roberts". In May 1958, his work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, England. (en)
- Robert Colquhoun (Kilmarnock, 1914 – Londra, 1962) è stato un pittore e scenografo scozzese. Colquhoun nacque a Kilmarnock, Scozia, e fu educato alla . Vinse una borsa di studio per la Scuola d'Arte di Glasgow, dove incontrò Robert MacBryde con cui si stabilì una amicizia e collaborazione per tutta la vita, fino ad essere chiamati "i due Robert". Si unì a MacBryde in un viaggio di studio per la Francia e l'Italia dal 1937 al 1939, prima di fare il guidatore d'ambulanza per la Royal Army Medical Corps durante la Seconda guerra mondiale. Dopo esser stato ferito, ritornò a Londra nel 1941 dove divise lo studio con MacBryde. Il duo condivise una casa con l'artista John Minton e, dal 1943, con Jankel Adler. (it)
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